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Africa.- Burckhardt (John Lewis) Travels in Nubia, first edition, engraved portrait and 3 engraved maps, 2 folding, advertisement leaf at end, light offsetting to title, maps foxed, slight worming to outer margins towards end, contemporary calf, gilt, rather worn, [cf.Blackmer 238, second edition], 4to, 1819.

⁂ Burckhardt travelled from Aleppo to Cairo and then made two journeys, one along the Upper Nile, the other through the Nubian desert.

Description

Africa.- Burckhardt (John Lewis) Travels in Nubia, first edition, engraved portrait and 3 engraved maps, 2 folding, advertisement leaf at end, light offsetting to title, maps foxed, slight worming to outer margins towards end, contemporary calf, gilt, rather worn, [cf.Blackmer 238, second edition], 4to, 1819.

⁂ Burckhardt travelled from Aleppo to Cairo and then made two journeys, one along the Upper Nile, the other through the Nubian desert.

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